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Hello johnsmith45jock,
I've been having a lot of problems with windows 7 (mostly being lag and viruses caused from unwanted softwares my father installed when he didn't have his own PC) and I've decided i'm just going to completely format win7. if i'm having the issue again i'll let you know. thanks anyway.

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System Icons - Turn On or OffHow to Turn System Icons On or Off in Windows 7 and Windows 8
System icons, including Input indicator (Windows 8 only), Clock, Volume, Network, Power, and Action Center are special icons that are part of Windows. For these icons, you can change how the icons and notifications appear, and...

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can't turn second unallocated partition into a simple volumei just bought a 3TB external hard drive. i noticed it reads kind of slowly, especially when i first open it in explorer, so i decided to try to partition it.
i saw the tutorial on shrinking and partitioning hard drives on this forum and used the windows 7 disk manager to shrink and partition...

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System Tray Icons Will Not Turn On At AllSo for the last few month I've had a string of issues, when one was fixed another would pop up, a virus showing up, my old anti-virus was kicking me out of games and other programs every 5 minutes to warn me about it but it couldn't fix the issue. So I downloaded Avast anti-virus, it fixed the...

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Unable to see/turn on network, battery, volume, etc. iconsHello,
I recently noticed my network and battery icons have disappeared off my taskbar. When I tried to put them back, the check boxes in customize notification area were greyed out. I did a little research and people who had the same problem said to run "sfc /scannow" in command prompt. After...

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Cant turn on/off systray iconsHi,
My Network icon went missing from the systray so I went into the Control Panel etc to turn it back on and found that it's greyed out. It tells me that only the Administrator can turn on/off the icons. I AM the Administrator! lol :cry:
On another forum I was told, that as I only had one...

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Cannot Turn System Icons On Or OffI can't customize which system icons show up on the taskbar. For some reason, I can only set the clock on or off. When I click the help file link that says "Why can't I change some of these settings?", it gives me some information about how an administrator may of changed group policies. I didn't...